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author: molly kiefer

molly kiefer

molly is one of magoosh’s content creators. she designs magoosh’s graphic assets, manages our youtube channels and podcasts, and contributes to the magoosh high school blog.

since 2014, molly has tutored high school and college students preparing for the sat, gre, and lsat. she began her tutoring journey while in undergrad, helping her fellow students master math, computer programming, spanish, english, and philosophy.

molly graduated from lewis & clark college with a b.a. in philosophy, and she continues to study ethics to this day. an artist at heart, molly loves blogging, making art, taking long walks and serving as personal agent to her cat, who is more popular on instagram than she is.

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  • how hard is sat vocabulary, really?

    if you haven’t taken any practice sats or done much in the way of prep, you might not realize what, exactly, you’re getting into. sat vocab is totally nuts. there will be words on the test that you’ve never seen or heard. i mean it. oh, you read a lot? and you think you have…

  • is the sat an iq test?

    despite the size of the test prep industry, there’s this lingering myth that the sat is an iq test, so studying for it is futile. the official response to that from the test prep giants (kaplan, princeton, barron’s…) is a pretty unanimous “hogwash!” or maybe it’s “horsefeathers!” it’s something barn related, in any case. but…

  • how hard is sat writing?

    high schoolers across the country need a strong score on the sat to boost their college applications. for some students, the writing section worries them the most. with 30% of the writing score based on a timed essay and 70% based on multiple-choice writing questions, students wonder, “how hard is the sat writing? will this…